I've definitely felt like my Google searches have been lackluster after a lot of subreddits went dark. from advices to game communities, it sucks to check other forums you have no knowledge of browsing or worse shudders quora
Give it some time, people will get comfortable here, the revolution dust will settle an we will be adding ‘-Reddit “Lemmy”’ to search queries (fingers crossed!)
But how would this work with broader federation? Searching other instances like beehaw or kbin? We'll needan new search optimization to search the fediverse more efficiently.
You're absolutely right, true, but that will work for you and me, but not for your typical user, even the more advanced ones will be stumped at that point
It's also a super clunky way to search. If I'm skimming posts for technical issues that I need a quick turnaround for, I'm probably not going through that hassle unless I'm desperate.
Reddit actions are tragic for the web. I can't even tell you how many times I searched something and typed Reddit at the end of the query. Not just because Reddit search SUCKS, but mostly because it's a gold mine of information. Especially for technical stuff.
Your game crash? Reddit. Weird bug on your laptop? Reddit. Looking for a cool app? Reddit. Have a weird question? Reddit.
Reddit saved me countless hours and headache. I felt that yesterday when doing a search about something without even putting Reddit on it, kept bringing up Reddit links. I'd click on it without reading and end up on a locked sub because of the blackout.
It sucks but I hope it's going to continue. But at the same time, I don't see Reddit backing down. And even lf they do? I'm not going back. Because how dare you? Like... screw you for even trying to pull that crap on your users.
Try using ChatGPT if you haven't. Ive used Reddit in the past for a lot of troubleshooting, but ChatGPT is easier to get the answers I'm looking for unless I asked the question myself. But there's no judgement from ChatGPT lol
Though, take care to factcheck what you get from it; all it really is is just a word predictor, and it can be pretty good at confidently telling you absolute nonsense that sounds right
Agree, but I think that's the point: this is the proof we have to switch to a different model. It will take time to replace Reddit as the huge information source it was (and to a certain extent still is), but I'm willing to hope it can happen.
Not trying to be hostile, but you just went on about how useful reddit is, but you also hope it dies? I just don't understand why people support these long blackouts while admitting it won't make reddit change it's mind.
Not OP but I think this type of information is not something a for-profit company should be able to hold against everyone on the Internet. At this point I think reddit has to 'die' in order for a better, more open standard to take its place. Even if they do cave to the demands they have shown that they are willing to sacrifice the platform and usability for more profits, so there is no knowing what they will do in the future. It's a great loss, but I would rather get it over with now so there is solid foundation to build on and this doesn't happen again.
really hope any new platform gets adopted pretty soon, if it's going to be kbin, lemmy or any other, in the end it doesn't really matter. what matters is that the community needs sometihng else to build up.
irritating but also interestings times, now that some reddit subs and apps is going either dark or being shutdown, I noticed how often i go to reddit to read discussions but also to search via Google. this has to be moved to something else or I don't know if I can completetly leave Reddit.
That’s why I used shreddit to delete all my posts and comments on Reddit. It’s not much, but if everyone does it Reddit will feel the repercussions. They won’t benefit from my content anymore.
I don't want to take away ressources from people who will look into Monero in the future :/
In the past I commented many explanations when people asked for help and I don't want someone to find a thread with a question and deleted comment with a "Thanks!" reply. I guess a script to change all my past comments into something along the lines of "Removed. In case this was a support-related comment, feel free to ask for help on monero.town" could work?
Yeah, I’ve had to consciously not click the Reddit links recently when looking for a Mastodon client. On the plus side, it made me write my own post here on kbin asking the same question and the response was great! So glad to be a part of such a helpful community.
Am I the only one that's noticed how reddit has been fucking with web crawlers? They insert newer comments into older posts so the crawlers pick up false results.
A few years back they started injecting a "related posts" box into pages. What that does is multiply the amount of results a crawler will pick up. But all those are false results. There's only one true search result which is the original comment/post. Some times I find myself sifting though the search engine results to find the actual original post. The rest are completely worthless, off topic, reddit posts littering the search index.
I know all this blackout stuff hurts now. I see it as necessary for the platform to lose its status as the "front page of the internet". Reddit turned evil a long time ago. It's long past time it be deposed of.
That explains why the search page quotes a comment that doesn't exist on the post. That always confused me. It's insane how dependent on searching with "reddit" appended on the end of the search term I am. I have qualms as to how this'll bode for search engines if reddit loses interest or goes under.
Had this happen several times today while looking for info on Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
Clicked on perfect links that took me to Reddit. I'm glad several other threads existed on Steam else I'd still be stuck. Minor inconvenience given that making subs private is pretty much all that can be done at this point!
It's definitely something that made me realise we might actually have a chance at inconveniencing enough people. I was searching for some stuff yesterday, came across Reddit links which I checked, only to find that the sub was private. As long as the mods aren't all replaced, and we delete our old comments if they are, Reddit looses enough content to make it useless as a good resource.
Ran into it multiple times today, really annoying that eventually if these subreddits are closed or the content deleted were effectively losing a decade plus of useful content
Was talking to one of my friends about this the other day. Reddit has close to two decades of answers to questions from experts in their respective fields and now between subs going private and people purging their accounts a lot of that data is about to disappear which really fucking sucks.
Whole wealth of information that people can grow from going down the drain over one man's desire to be the next Zuckerberg.
That’s why I wish people would just go dark rather than full delete of data. Deleting all your data isn’t going to hurt Reddit as much as everyone else who might really benefit from your comment.
I understand that too. It’s why I always tried to never give out anything too personal on Reddit. I only posted something I was ok with people seeing/finding. Over 10 years that amassed to a lot, most of it drivel in places like r/askreddit. But in subs dedicated to hobbies, I want people to see my content because their content helped me at some point(I never subbed to a hobby sub until I visited it enough to warrant it adding to my front page scroll).
Yeah, thought of that, but while I did do a quick attempt prior to my comment, and while I could get cached copies of some pages in the Reddit domain, for whatever reason, my attempts to pull up random comments didn't seem to have Google having cached copies for those pages. Not sure what determines whether Google has a cached copy or not.
Oh, and IIRC there's a a browser plugin.
goes looking
Yeah, official browser plugin for Firefox and for Chrome for the Wayback Machine, so if one is doing this a lot, one can slightly reduce the time to bounce through the archive.org site.
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